GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 742464
Show a screen presenting the existence of extensions.gnome.org in the first run wizard
Last modified: 2015-01-07 13:59:58 UTC
Various people used to gnome2-levels of customizability find themselves disappointed with the bolted down core experience of GNOME 3; however, in many cases they don't know that https://extensions.gnome.org exists (and is technically awesome). I think this would warrant a short text and screenshot/diagram on the last page of the "welcome to gnome" wizard/druid/slider thingy, with a linkbutton to open up the gnome extensions website. Present it as a way to customize and extend gnome, similar to Firefox's extensions/add-ons system, etc. There are power users out there that have no idea the GNOME3 extensions system exists, which causes needless pain. I can't really fault them because this isn't actually announced anywhere in the UI (and not even in the general GNOME user manual in Yelp).
Website also affected (see bug 742465)
Getting started is about hand-holding an overwhelmed newbie in a completely new environment. More information we confront them with, the worse of a job we're doing. Release notes/website is a better place for mentioning extensions.
The website idea occured to me afterwards, and I could agree that it could be a better place for this actually (unless anyone else thinks it could make sense in the first start tour/wizard/thing)...
+1 for the website rather then the initial wizard (also agree we should be very careful about not overwhelming the user with to much info in the initial wizard).
Alright, let's turn this solely into a main website wishlist for when the extensions website has been improved enough :) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 742465 ***